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Re: Lewis and Clark lunars: more 1803 Almanac data
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Apr 19, 12:30 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Apr 19, 12:30 -0600
On 19 Apr 2004 at 12:04, Ken Muldrew wrote: > diverges quite sharply). I'll just give my results for Aldebaran and > Tabit (PI 3 Orion, the center of his bow). I should have given the star positions I used to do these calculations. The moon, Aldebaran, and Aries come from the U.S. Naval Observatory Celestial Navigation calculator, found at: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/celnavtable.html The Dec, 1803 star postions for Tabit and PI 4 Ori are: Tabit (PI 3 Ori) RA 4h 39m 18.3s Dec +6? 36' 30.3" PI 4 Ori RA 4h 40m 46.2s Dec 5? 15' 30.3" In my first message, I mistakenly wrote PI 5 Orion instead of 4 in an explanatory comment following the table. Ken Muldrew.
